///alt3 @alt3@merveilles.town

I joined my local anarchist union a few months ago. After not knowing for a long time how to get involved, I have now found the possibility to design logos for some chapters. It's just a small thing but it brings me a little bit closer to the people and I have something I can support in a meaningful way.

#theWorkshop #fau

Rest in Power David Graeber. I have never read a book by you and yet I have stumbled upon you and your thoughts at regular intervals since the Occupy protests. Last year, when I heard that you were giving a lecture at the Chaos Communcation Congress, I dropped everything and ran into the lecture hall. I was hoping that you would come back this year. You will be missed. #graeber

I discovered hyperlink.academy a few weeks ago and meanwhile they have published their first courses. Every single course sounds super interesting - but I decided to take the course "GUIs Through Art History" due to the lack of time and money. The course starts next week and I am a bit nervous and full of anticipation when I think about it.

https://hyperlink.academy/

Over the last few days an old school friend has been visiting me. He strongly recommended a contemporary novel to me, in whose analyses and observations he found himself painfully often. I read some reviews this morning and the opinions on it varied greatly - from "this book could start a youth movement" to "I'm giving the book away to the first person to comment on it". I accompanied him to the train station today and picked up the book directly in the next book department. #AllegroPastell

So in Love with the Cover of Crack Clouds new LP Pain Olympics.

https://crackcloud.bandcamp.com/album/pain-olympics

#theObservatory

Tiddlyblink + glitch is an easy way to get your tiddlywiki with bi-directional linking to the web. Hopefully this leads to many small digital gardens.

https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/20/tiddlyblink-glitch/

Yesterday I had a very nice encounter on the internet. I'm currently programming a prototype to show how to recognize Phishing mails in everyday work routine. After I was stuck for several hours and didn't manage to mirror the contents of my js array into my HTML code, I used the help function of glitch.com. After a few minutes I worked with a person from Sweden to get my code working. This is the internet as I wanted it to be back then and what has become so unrealistic in the last years.

For all those who are looking for some culture tonight: On the website of the Schaubühne Berlin you can watch Didier Eribon's play "Return to Reims" until 24:00. I read the book last year and was very impressed by his analysis of the working class.

https://www.schaubuehne.de/de/start/index.html

In my youth on the village I was fascinated by the sticker and graffiti culture in bigger cities. Today I ordered my own stickers for the first time - much too late. Anyway, I can't wait to open the package and stick them on.

On the sticker you can see Gudrun Gut from "Malaria!" with the face tattoo of Gucci Mane. This is the start of a new subculture - Lean Goth.

#theWorkshop

Really like this idea:

Quarantine Stories is a collaborative platform that collects stories of isolation as a result of home-quarantining in efforts to reduce the effects of COVID-19

https://quarantinestories.today/

#theStudio https://youtu.be/BpE__TdvDBc

First day in the home office. Feeling more productive than usual, curious to see if it stays that way for the coming weeks.

Yesterday's report of Chelsea Manning's suicide attempt caught me off guard. After hearing about her release this morning, some of the burden really fell off me.

On reddit I kept stumbling across the appeal for donations from "The Action Network", but it seems to me that it's not quite up to date. Is there another way to donate?

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/chelsea-manning-needs-legal-funds-to-resist-a-grand-jury-subpoena

Roedelius - Wenn der Südwind weht

#theStudio

https://youtu.be/j_xXCk-IsXg

I used the cold Sunday to work on the January issue of my link blog "Der Groschen". The site should be online by the end of the month.

#theWorkshop

"Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu" is a documentary about the last day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times in 1978.
The Linotype machines they used there were invented in 1884. It is fascinating to imagine how quickly we replace our tools today and how much learning new tools has become part of everyday life. Apart from that, I was really blown away by the craft and the mechanics of the machines.

https://youtu.be/1MGjFKs9bnU

#theObservatory

As a first step I got "A New Program for Graphic Design" by David Reinfurt and will work through it during the next weeks.

The article made empowered me in some way to see self-education as a conscious, political decision with many advantages and not as a necessary evil.